命

命
mìng = mi + (e)ng4
life / fate / order or command / to assign a name, title etc
命 = 亼 + 叩 : In engine's bathroom, Marilyn Monroe kow tows before a pointed hat. She thinks that this is her fate.

命 character breakdown

亼
jí = ji + Ø2
variant of 集[ji2]
亼 = 一 + 人 : This one looks like a pointed cap.

Joan of Arc (ji) is going to have her first day of school the next day. During the night she sneaked into the space station's kitchen (Ø2) and found a pointed cap (亼) filled with sweets, which she starts eating immediately.
叩
kòu = k + ou4
to knock / to kowtow
叩 = 卩 + 口 : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.
叩
敂
kòu = k + ou4
old variant of 叩[kou4] / to knock
叩 = 卩 + 口 : In the outhouse's bathroom, Karl Marx kow tows before the baby seal and its huge mandarin.

Characters with 命 as component

命 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 命

命
令
句
imperative sentence
命
令
行
command line (computing)
命
危
(medicine) in a critical condition
命
名
日
name day (tradition of celebrating a given name on a certain day of the year)
命
名
法
nomenclature
命
命
名
名
系
系
统
統
system of nomenclature
命
在
旦
夕
to be at death's door (idiom)
命
大
lucky (to have escaped death or serious injury)
命
定
to be predestined
命
命
归
歸
黄
黃
泉
泉
lit. to return to the Yellow Springs 黃泉|黄泉[Huang2 quan2] (idiom) / fig. to die / to meet one's end

Sentences with 命

没
méi
有
yǒu
大
dà
王
wáng
的
de
命
mìng
令
lìng
 
 
谁
shéi
也
yě
不
bù
能
néng
走
zǒu
Nobody can pass without the king's order.